This week, I released updates to VGBAnext, MasterGear, and ColEm retrogaming emulators for Android. In VGBAnext, I have properly emulated the rotation hardware behavior when someone changes the screen mode in VDPCNT register. This fixed Pinball Tycoon and probably a bunch of other games. In MasterGear, I have changed the way VRAM writes work when someone sets VDP into the "read" mode. While it is illegal to write into VRAM in this mode, some developers still did it. The change fixed artefacts in Klax, Wolf Child, and Astrowarrior. Finally, the new ColEm got all the UI improvements previously introduced in my other apps. See below for complete change logs.

MAME and MESS are available for the Windows, Linux and Mac OS platforms.

"MAME stands for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator. When used in conjunction with images of the original arcade game's ROM and disk data, MAME attempts to reproduce that game as faithfully as possible on a more modern general-purpose computer. MAME can currently emulate several thousand different classic arcade video games from the late 1970s through the modern era.

MAME is free. Its source code is free. Selling either is not allowed. "

This week, I updated my iNES and VGB emulators for Android to new
versions, bringing Material-style navigation menu, tiled view mode,
ability to have custom game databases, and more. Both apps now show
up in the Google Play store for Android TV.

This week, I updated VGBAnext, MasterGear, and Speccy emulators for
Android. All three should now show up in the Google Play Store for
AndroidTV. I have also released free MasterGear and Speccy binaries
for Windows and Linux.

In VGBAnext and MasterGear, you can now supply your own game database
helping identify ROMs by name. Speccy has got a few emulation fixes and
new options requested by the users. Finally, in VGBAnext, I continued
lollipopping (lollipooping?) the user interface, adding the navigation
menu and the optional tile view.

VGBAnext 1.2.5 -- Nintendo GameBoy Advance and GameBoy Color Emulatorhttps://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fms.emu
* Fixed a crash accidentally introduced in VGBAnext 1.2.4.
* You can add your own game names database in "/sdcard/VGBAnext/names.dat".
* Added navigation menu to the File Selector.
* Added tile view to the File Selector.
* Added "up" button to the main emulator title bar.
* Made "grid view" and "tile view" options separate.
* Moved File Selector view toggles to the navigation menu.
* VGBAnext now shows up in the Google Play for AndroidTV.
* Added Prince of Persia: Sands of Time cheats.
* Added cheats for five Sponge Bob Square Pants games.

MasterGear 3.2.3 -- Sega MasterSystem and GameGear Emulatorhttps://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fms.mghttp://fms.komkon.org/MG/ (free version for Windows and Linux)
* Released free MasterGear 3.2 for Windows and Linux.
* When assigning keys, DPAD_CENTER button confirms assignments.
* You can add your own game names database in "/sdcard/MasterGear/names.dat".
* Fixed Emulation Settings not showing up from File Selector.
* Removed unnecessary group inside Emulation Settings.
* Added the "up" button to the main emulator title bar.
* Cleaned up and beautified the File Selector grid view.
* MasterGear now shows up in the Google Play for AndroidTV.
* Fixed multiple build warnings.

Time to let off a little steam with the newest release of Steem SSE. The Windows version has three different kind of releases. There's your main version, your lite version for older computers that can't handle D3D support, and there's your debug version. A Linux version has also been added to the site.

Changes:

D3D support for more compatible fullscreen, support for STW disk images, STG ghost disks, run PRG and TOS files, many emulation improvements. You do need an up-to-date, working, installation of Direct3D 9.

LaunchBox is a emulators frontend for the Windows Platform. It supports several emulators, including support DOSBox, Steam and ScummVM launching. It also downloads the games artwork from several sources. It is freeware but you can also buy "LaunchBox Premium" that has more customization options.